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"Canada, Ireland and Norway, Now Vying for the 2020 Security Council Vote"
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Jockeying for a two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council starts early — way early. Three countries are already vying for the two open seats in the regional group known as Weog — Western Europe and Others — for the 2021-22 term. The election is June 2020, and the "others" are Australia, Canada, Israel and New Zealand.
The 2020 contenders — Canada, Ireland and Norway — are competing to represent the oddly configured regional group in an election that will be decided by the 193 members of the General Assembly. Two will serve in 2021 and 2022 alongside the Council's five permanent members and eight other nonpermanent members. The Weog bloc is often one of the most contested elections.
For the 2020-21 term, the one seat open in the Eastern European bloc is being fought by Estonia and Romania, who face election this June. India and Vietnam are competing for the single Asia-Pacific seat. The remaining groups — Africa and Latin America-Caribbean — usually avoid public campaigns by preselecting countries through rotations.
The feminism card
For the race among Canada, Ireland and Norway, each offers a different approach to one of the most pressing issues facing the UN: the quest for gender equality, internally and around the world.
Only two women currently sit on the Security Council, Britain's ambassador, Karen Pierce, and Poland's ambassador, Joanna Wronecka. The Weog bloc is fielding two female ambassadors — Mona Juul of Norway and Geraldine Byrne Nason of Ireland — for what could be the first time in UN history.
Gender equality is a sensitive issue at the UN. Secretary-General António Guterres has achieved gender parity at the senior management level but much remains to be done at all other levels.
Adding more women to the Council would meanwhile give weight to the global push for gender equality. Nason of Ireland chaired this year's Commission on the Status of Women, the UN's global conference on women's rights. Between 2011 and 2014, she was the highest-ranking woman in Ireland, as second secretary-general of the Department of the Taoiseach (Ireland's prime ministry).
While Canada is the only contender with a male ambassador, Marc-André Blanchard, it is also the only one of the three countries pushing a publicly avowed feminist foreign policy, led by its female deputy ambassador to the UN, Louise Blais.
"We are very supportive of the secretary-general's work on gender equality," Blais told PassBlue. "He has achieved gender parity in high echelons of the UN, but we think it needs to go deeper than that. There are other layers that need to become more representative of women."
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The CBC has aired the possibility of Canada and Ireland splitting one of the Council seats, each assuming it for a year, which Italy and the Netherlands did in the 2017-18 term, after neither could win a majority vote in the General Assembly.
The option was brushed off by Blais, who said, "We are not considering or even contemplating it at this point."
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FSTO
Pretty embarrassing for the current government if Canada doesn't win the seat.
Considering they did everything they could while in opposition to shoot down our last attempt, I'd say more like karma.
I'm sure the PM's alleged "fake feminism" will come up more than once.
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FSTO said:
I suspect that while the arrogance of the "national governing party" usually precludes them from understanding the term "embarrassment" (as with any polity that presumes its way is the only way, and fails to comprehend centrist compromise), they are slowly catching on.
So far though, they seem to believe that throwing the occasional public servant under the bus -- they'll soon run out of senior ones, and have to start digging deeper -- is as close to mea culpa as they get. It's much easier to apologize for occurrences many generations ago, "before we brought sunny ways; you're welcome."
Haggis said:
Whatever could you mean?
I'm increasingly returning to my pre-election belief: Harper needed to go and Trudeau's 'just not ready,' therefore leave Parliament in recess and we'll have a look every 6 months to see if there's a need to bring them back.
Yes, it's unworkable; I understand the recurring requirement for various Parliamentary approvals. But one can dream.
Rifleman62
Three countries are already vying for the two open seats in the regional group known as Weog — Western Europe and Others — for the 2021-22 term. The election is June 2020.....
Think of it this way: The Liberals lose the Oct 19 election. If Canada doesn't get the seat in June 20 it will be the Conservatives/Scheer's fault. If Canada gets the seat, it was all the hard ground work that Trudeau did. The MSM will be on who's side do you think?
Loachman
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Journeyman said:
leave Parliament in recess and we'll have a look every 6 months to see if there's a need to bring them back.
"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
- Gideon Tucker
... leave Parliament in recess and we'll have a look every 6 months to see if there's a need to bring them back.
Still, it seems Northern Ireland isn't falling off the edge of the earth after being without a legislative body since January 2017 ;D
MarkOttawa
Public complaints by UN peacekeeping dept. about our efforts with the C-130J and MINUSMA will not exactly help our UNSC candidacy, and will put of EU members helping in Mali, both with UN and with France's Barkhane CT op:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-un-disagree-over-restrictions-on-pledged-military-transport/
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/un-formally-asks-canada-to-extend-mali-mission-to-prevent-medevac-gap
https://thedefensepost.com/2019/02/28/denmark-sahel-deployment-operation-barkhane/
Norway is a nice choice, I can't see them being as pushy about identity and gender politics as the Canadian lot might be.
And see this about our leaving as scheduled from MINUSUMA and the UNSC seat:
Opinion : Le Canada et les opérations de paix
Ni cohérence ni crédibilité
En opposant aux demandes de prolongation un refus définitif, le Canada crée un vide au nord du Mali. Il met en péril les troupes sur le terrain, il fragilise la sécurité des populations et il agit de manière contraire aux valeurs et aux ambitions canadiennes. Plus encore, Ottawa souligne l'incohérence de ses engagements en faveur du maintien de la paix et ouvre la porte aux détracteurs qui posent désormais la question de la crédibilité de ces derniers.
* Marie-Joëlle Zahar est professeure à l'Université de Montréal et Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé est professeure à l'Université Bishop's.
http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/9388bab0-d54c-4a7f-aa1a-9a082f8fedff__7C___0.html
Kiss that seat goodbye, Justin (not that it was a good idea to seek it in the first place anyway but now you're just a bad as Harper--gosh).
My money is on Australia.
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Here they share some of the best tips they received from those mentors that crafted the instructor you see today. We hope you can be inspired by their words, just as they were by someone else.
Our contributing author team shares their memories.
*All of the above fit pros would like to think their amazing guru's, mentors, and inspirations during their journey.
What is the best advice you have received during your fitness journey? Share in the comments below or join the conversation on social media!


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You've just settled into the changes, hopes and dreams of pregnancy when along comes the dreaded morning sickness which can really dampen the excitement of being pregnant. But this may not be a bad thing.
1. Many women discover that there are some scents that nauseate them before they even know they are pregnant and are often their first clue that a baby is on the way.
2. It is thought that approximately 75 percent of pregnant women suffer from the nausea and vomiting which, although called morning sickness can actually occur at any time of day. Morning sickness can be a sign that your pregnancy is progressing normally and that your placenta is properly developing. That amazing organ that keeps your baby warm and safe inside you can unfortunately cause quite a stir inside as it's developing.
3. Morning sickness is a form of food aversion in that it keeps women from eating certain foods. During the first trimester your baby's organs are undergoing critical development and chemicals commonly found in some foods (even natural foods) can sometimes interrupt the development process and possibly cause those organs to be deformed. Symptoms of morning sickness tend to peak at the point at which organ development is in its most critical stage – between the sixth and 18th weeks of pregnancy.
4. Morning sickness has been linked to lower instances of miscarriage and has also been linked to decreased risk of heart problems for baby.
5. Morning sickness has been linked to higher IQs in babies. This doesn't mean that your child will drop out of school if you're not throwing up during your pregnancy, but some studies have linked morning sickness during pregnancy to higher IQs.
6. Morning sickness limits your physical activitywhich you might think not a good thing, but it is thought that the limits which morning sickness puts on you will help keep your physical activity at levels which are safe for your developing baby.
Whilst morning sickness may be a good sign that your pregnancy is progressing and you have a healthy baby inside of you, too much of a good thing can be bad for you so if you have severe morning sickness which prevents you for eating for more than a day and if you are losing weight during pregnancy contact your doctor to discuss the possibility that you may a more serious form of morning sickness known as hyperemesis gravidarum.


Ducks Attack sat down with Oregon Track star Andrew Wheating.
Ducks Attack:What was your overall impression of how the trials were handled, how were you treated what could have been changed if anything?
Andrew Wheating: Just like any big meet, the first day is always the shakiest because everyone is worried about any little thing that pops up but as the hours role by a rough start quickly changed to a smooth ride. As for athlete hospitality, at first I was a little overwhelmed with how well the athletes were taken care of. Everyone who was working behind the scene for the athletes offered us anything we needed. I almost felt obligated to take what I didn't need just because it was available, it was pretty sweet.
DA:How was running in front of the home crowd in that Oregon jersey?
AW: There were NO other two colors in the world that I would have wanted to run in then green and yellow. I could feel the support every time I walked onto Hayward. People were shouting words of encouragement each time I strode out along the home stretch. If I had 21,000 hands I would've high-fived everyone in the stadium.
AW: With 200m left I was getting a little worried but I refused to panic. I knew I had more left in me and I chose to wait until the final hundred to let it loose. When Nick popped out it was a good indication that maybe I should start going too, so I picked it up a little. I could hear the crowd getting excited and I knew Nick was giving them the show they all paid for. But when I started to reel in the rest of the field the stadium was deafening. When the field fell out of my peripheral vision my eye's widened and the crowed exploded. I had a smile frozen to my face for the next couple of days and will by imprinted in my mind for the rest of my life.
DA:Two years ago did you even think of heading to Beijing?
AW:Not even a little bit. I had aspirations of making it to London in 2012. My goal this season was to make it to the NCAA National meet in De Moines, talk about icing on the cake huh?
DA uring your press conference after the final, going to China had not really set in, when did that finally set in for you?
AW:Really, I don't think it has, maybe when I'm old and decrepit I'll look back on it and final soak in the fact that I made an Olympic team but for now I'm just living in the moment. When I qualified for both the NCAA's and the Olympic Trials I thought "Ok, same race, different track. Lets do it!" And nothing's changed.
DA:What are you doing now to prepare for the trip to China?
AW:Breathing in all the fresh air I can muster.
DA:What can you say about the success of the Oregon Athletes and knowing them not only as teammates but on a personal level as well?
AW:I honestly believe that the closer you are as a team the stronger an individual will perform. This team is more like a family to me, I see brothers and sisters not just teammates. But as for the future I think this sport better watch out cause Oregon is definitely going to start making waves.
DA:What are the chances of seeing you here again in 2012?
DA:What about Eugene makes it Track Town USA in your mind?
AW:The support! This town loves it's Oregon athletes no matter what sport it is. But you'll find that a lot of places around the country won't have the kind of track support that Eugene does. I haven't been to a race outside of Track Town yet where the crowd gets louder then right here. If I could I'd pack the stadium from the trials in my suitcase and bring them to China with me.
DA id the second jumbo screen affect you? Good or Bad?
AW:Not at all. When I race I'm able to block out everything, usually. The trials is the only race where my focus was actually cracked. I couldn't help but smile when everyone applauded my introduction, I couldn't help but wave and soak in all the support, and on that final 100 meters of that 800 my concentration was shattered with a tidal wave of noise from a stadium full of track fans. It was freakin' awesome!
I'd like to thank Andrew for his time, and I'd like to remind you guys to check back often for more Oregon athlete's interviews.


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Casey Feldman Memories Casey Feldman Photos End Distracted Driving
THE CASEY FELDMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
The Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation provides financial support to individuals, groups, and institutions whose interests and goals align with those of Casey.
1. Years in Review (4)
Animals – Casey's Love (18)
Cappies (9)
Computer Science Stipends (4)
Fordham University (20)
Dedication of Casey Feldman Newsroom (1)
Media & Communications Internship (5)
The Observer (3)
Fundraisers (9)
July 17th Day of Service and Remembrance (14)
Magee Rehabilitation Hospital (7)
NOYS (Nat'l Org for Youth Saftey) (9)
Pedestrian Safety/Distracted Driving (37)
Press Coverage (26)
Sea Isle City (4)
Springfield High School (16)
Tree Dedications/Pink Trees (6)
University of Colorado (54)
Alternative Spring Break (40)
PIIE (Public Interest Internship Experience) (8)
West Chester University – Phi Sigma Pi (11)
CU Airs TV News Clip "Casey Feldman Inspiration"; Feldmans Meet Scholarship Recipients
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
L to R: Danielle Sandoval, Dianne Anderson, Ricky Bell, Amy Aberra,Tsion Zergaw and Joel Feldman (rear)
The Feldmans combined a trip to the University of Colorado to visit Brett with a meeting with students from the Volunteer Resource Center and this year's scholarship recipients for the Alternative Spring Break program. While there, the Feldman's were filmed by CU student, Kylie Bearse for a news story about the Foundation's establishment of scholarships for the Alternative Spring Break program. The two minute news clip, titled, "Casey Feldman Inspiration" , aired on CU's television station on April 19, 2010 and is available to watch on You Tube.
The scholarship recipients in attendance at dinner, Danielle Sandoval (Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless), Ricky Bell (Catalina Island, CA), Amy Aberra (New Orleans Disaster Relief) and Tsion Zergaw (NYC God's Love We Deliver) discussed their trips and the impact that it had on their lives and the lives of those they were serving. Check back for future stories on the students' experiences spending their spring break helping others.
Kylie Bearse, CU Volunteer Resource Center student and Broadcast Journalism major, filmed "Casey Feldman Inspriration"
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The Feldmans Meet With CU Alternative Spring Break Students in NYC
CU students, The Feldmans and Casey's Fordham roommate,Christina Halligan preparing meals at God's Love We Deliver on 3-24-10. Right front -scholarship recipient, Tsion Zergaw.
This week the students at The University of Colorado at Boulder are on spring break, where many have chosen to do an "alternative" break, volunteering their time in community service projects throughout the nation. Seven CU students received scholarships through the Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation enabling them to participate in the "Alternative Spring Break" program this year.
Casey's parents, Dianne Anderson and Joel Feldman met up with the twelve CU students who are volunteering in NYC this week at "God Love, We Deliver", an organization that prepares and delivers some 3,200 meals per week to those living with HIV/Aids, cancer and other serious illnesses who are too sick to provide meals for themselves. The Feldman's were able to spend an afternoon volunteering with these dedicated young people and meet scholarship recipient, Tsion Zergaw. Casey's Fordham University roommate, Christina Halligan, who would volunteer with Casey at Momentum Soup Kitchen, joined in on Wednesday to help out between classes. Casey's Fordham friend, Brooke Burdge, who was interning for the day, met up with the Feldmans and the students for a dinner at the end of the day.
Note: A full story on all of the trips and the impact of the experience on the students and scholarship recipients will be forthcoming. To see more photos from this trip visit CaseyFeldmanNetwork.org and view the album, "God's Love We Deliver – NYC Alternative Spring Break Volunteers".
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Who are the faces in CO of the Casey Feldman Memorial Fund?
This March, several students from the University of Colorado at Boulder will be spending their spring breaks doing service with a program called Alternative Spring Break. Just as Casey dedicated her time to volunteering and reaching out to others, these students are using their time off to travel to different areas of the country and volunteer their time. With the help of the Casey Feldman Memorial Endowment Fund, these seven students have now been given this opportunity. Who are the faces of the Casey Feldman Alternative Breaks Endowment Fund?
Gintare Ambotaite, Nashville Area, TN
Growing up in Lithuania, Gintare was able to experience nature and farm life before moving to New York City. Though she has volunteered with various organizations including God's Love We Deliver, the environment has always been a priority for Gintare. Her group will be traveling to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee and will work on trail building as well as learn about the logistics of organic farming on Sulfur Creek Farm.
Danielle Sandoval, Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless
Danielle's trip to Cincinnati will allow her to work with various organizations committed to working on hunger, homelessness, urban poverty and racism in the Cincinnati area. She feels that alternative breaks will be an opportunity to spread the word about the impact that each life can have on another. Danielle has volunteered with Invisible Children, which works to fight against child enslavement in Northern Uganda and To Write Love On Her Arms, a non-profit that works to battle addiction, suicide, self-injury, and depression.
Amy Aberra, New Orleans Disaster Relief
Amy will be volunteering in New Orleans during her spring break. Originally from Ethiopia, Amy says that she shares Casey's passion for helping others, right down to donating her prom dress and volunteering in a soup kitchen. With goals such as improving environmental awareness, and eventually running her own clinics, schools, and orphanages, her work in New Orleans is very fitting. Amy's volunteer work will include rebuilding homes in the Lower Ninth Ward, helping out at local shelters, working with youth, and assisting community members to access social service.
Tsion Zergaw, New York, NY
Tsion will be heading to New York during her spring break, where Casey spent her college years at Fordham University. Tsion says she was attracted to Alternative Breaks because of the exposure to real life struggles. Along with eleven other volunteers, she will be working with a non-religious group called God's Love We Deliver, to prepare and deliver meals to those living with HIV/AIDs in New York, a cause that was also close to Casey's heart.
Ricky Bell, Catalina Island, CA
Inspired by Casey's story, as well as the first victim of the 1999 Columbine High School shootings, Ricky Bell says that he is motivated to do service and make a difference. In high school, as part of "Rachael's Challenge," a club that he helped to create, students got together with the purpose of promoting positivity, standing up for others, and standing up for what is right, inspired by the club's namesake, who had dedicated her own life to service, similar to Casey. Ricky will be traveling to Catalina Island in California to participate in various environmental projects.
Lauren Carter, Catalina Island,CA
Lauren's compassion for both humans and animals is a quality that she shares with Casey. She has volunteered at the Boulder Humane Society, taking care of cats and dogs, just as Casey had done at Animal Haven in New York. Lauren will be embarking on a trip to Catalina Island, CA, working with the Catalina Island Conservancy, an organization that is dedicated to restoration and preservation of the land and waters of the island. In addition to being passionate about animals, Lauren says that helping the environment has always been close to her heart.
Veronica Lamas, Urban Poverty, Atlanta, GA
Just as Casey volunteered at soup kitchens, Veronica volunteers on Thanksgiving at a soup kitchen so that families may have a decent meal. Growing up as a daughter of immigrant parents has made her want to help out low-income children by being a mentor, she says. Working with impoverished youth in Atlanta will allow Veronica to directly serve in the community. Her main goal is to "touch people's hearts by helping them with their problems," she says, "because everyone deserves to be happy regardless of their financial situation."
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Scheidegg is a municipality in the district of Lindau in Bavaria in Germany and a licensed Kneipp cure spa and air health resort. Located in the Westallgäu region, the municipality of Scheidegg consists of the town of Scheidegg and the district of Scheffau. On the west and south, the municipality borders on the Bregenz Forest, which is part of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. The settlement of the area around Scheidegg started most likely in the 6th and 7th century by the Alamanni. Until 1481 it belonged to Weiler and was - as a result of the loss of the document - first mentioned in 1255 in St. Gallen. The imperial abbey of Benedictines St. Gallen promoted christianity and culture. In 1296 abbot Wilhelm sold Scheidegg to Count Hugo of Bregenz (Montfort). The area, which Habsburg had purchased in 1571, stayed a part of Vorarlberg until the Treaty of Pressburg in 1805 (Napoleon) and later became a part of Bavaria. The tradition of Scheidegg as a spa and recreation area goes back to the turn of the century (to the 20th century). When the first summer visitors came to Scheidegg after the construction of the railway line from Röthenbach to Scheidegg, the first attempt to organize the tourism was made by founding the association for transport and beautification in 1902. When in 1912 the construction of the Prinzregent-Luitpold-Kinderklinik (a paedriatic clinic) began, this was the cornerstone for the development of Scheidegg to a spa. In 1936 Scheidegg became a licensed air health resort. After World War II a new start had to be made. The necessity to qualify as a spa was soon acknowledged and hence the first licensed kneippism business formed in 1964. In the year 1972 the municipalities of Scheidegg und Scheffau were merged in the course of the municipal reform in Bavaria.


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Hate campaign leads to attack against priest
by Mavi Zambak
Turkey's press and government tend to play down the attack, choosing instead to refer to it and similar incidents as "isolated cases." The long list of attacks against Christian clergymen shows by contrast that a widespread campaign of defamation and hatred against Christians is underway. In the country for the past 27 years, Father Franchini himself has been the object of various media attacks in the past.
Ankara (AsiaNews) – Turkey's press has expressed regrets for the latest incident involving an attack against a Christian clergyman. Fr Adriano Franchini, an Italian-born 65-year-old Capuchin who has been in Turkey for 27 years, was in fact stabbed to the stomach but is now out of danger. Turkish newspapers have however failed so far to take notice of the ongoing defamation campaign against Catholics in the country.
Ramazan Bay, the 19-year-old man who carried out the attack, surrendered to police a few hours after the stabbing. He had fled after he carried out his attack in a church in Barakli in Izmir right after mass and in front several witnesses. He was quickly identified as a young Turkish man who had recently expressed a desire to convert to Christianity and complained about the long procedure the Church in Turkey required for conversion.
In fact the young man told police that he took the decision to stab the priest after searching the internet for information on Christian activities and watching the last episode of a made-for-TV movie titled The Valley of the Wolves, which focuses on alleged Christian propaganda and proselytising.
Upon learning the news Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan offered the priest his best wishes for a quick recovery. In expressing his regrets for the incident, he criticised the young man for his actions, reiterating that Turkey was a country where different religions, sects and cultures had lived together for centuries, and condemning anyone, whatever their motive, who tried to destroy that harmony.
Such views reflect in a nutshell what Turkish authorities think about the incident but in so doing they show a failure to grasp the significance of this and similar events. By simply disagreeing with and dismissing this kind of violence as the action of a crazed individual or a random act by a Muslim fanatic Turkey's leaders are underestimating the problem.
In recent years Father Franchini was not the only Christian clergyman to be attacked. Fr Roberto Ferrari was threatened with a kebab knife in church, in Mersin, on 11 March 2006; so was Father Pierre Brunissen who was knifed 2 July 2006 outside his parish church in Samsun. None of the three were killed in these attacks.
Fr Andrea Santoro was not so lucky. He was shot to death on 5 February 2006 as he was praying in church in Trabzon. Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was killed the same way on 19 January of this year just outside his newspaper's office in a crowded Istanbul street. The fate of three Protestants, including a German, was even more tragic. After being hog-tied, they were tortured and knifed to death in the offices of the Zirve publishing company which prints Bibles and Christian books in Malatya.
What all these cases have in common is the fact that all the culprits are young Turkish men, all supposedly unbalanced, crazy or mentally feeble, who ostensibly acted according to investigators on an impulse triggered by watching TV programmes and reading online material that focused on "missionary activities" by religious and secular Christians.
Father Franchini accused of proselytising
Fr Adriano Franchini is a case in point. Originally from Levizzano Rangone, a town in the north-central Italian province of Modena, he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in 1959. He was ordained priest in 1968 and in 1980 moved to Turkey where he served as director of Caritas Turkey for more than ten years, demonstrating his great devotion to the Turkish population, especially in the great earthquake of 1999.
Pulling up his sleeves so to speak, he was involved in fund raising for quake victims and played an important role in the implementation of several projects in their favour, helping them quickly rebuild their villages.
Even then he was falsely and unfairly accused on the internet of proselytising; his selflessness, passion and desire to help, all his efforts were treated as means to "create Christians," when in fact all he wanted to do was to help powerless Muslims exhausted by the cold and hardships with no ulterior motive like converting.
At that time accusations went away, eventually, and the false charges laid against him, taken back. But online news have a long shelf-life and tend to be recycled and come back unchallenged.
In light of this and other episodes local Christians and Muslims wonder whether Turkey can be trusted since its authorities seem incapable of instilling its youth with the values of tolerance, dialogue, and respect for those who are different and for minorities, for allowing information based on untruths to circulate and letting its mass media continuously spread patently false, biased and defamatory information about Christians, especially via internet and on TV late at night.
All one needs to do is read the daily press summary by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Turkey (CBCT) to realise how Turks are bombarded every day with inaccurate, abusive and scandal-mongering stories about Christians and their faith.
What kind of harvest can one expect from this kind sowing? One that is full ignorance, prejudice and hatred.
The Turkish government shows very little restraint when it comes to censoring those who attack "Turkishness," but does precious little when it comes to defending Turkey's secularism and democracy from attacks.
Many people, be they non-religious, Christian or Muslim, hope that Turkey's political leaders might put a stop to this short-sightedness and help instead the Turkish nation show Europe and the world Turkey's real face, one that believes in freedom, democracy and truth.
Only this way can the vicious cycle of prejudice and suspicion between European countries and Turkey be broken, thus allowing the former to open their doors to the latter.
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Sentence for Father Santoro's murderer upheld
The court had no jurisdiction to deny the patriarchate its ecumenical status, says Bartholomew
Fr Brunissen stabbed amid anti-Christian scenario involving pope's visit too
Mastermind behind the slaughter of Christians in Malatya arrested
Turkish singer hires the assassins of Santoro and Dink


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Tomas Berdych vs. Jiri Vesely 2016 Wimbledon Pick, Odds, Prediction
Vesely vs. Berdych
Tuesday July 5, 2016, 9:00 PM (EDT)
The Line -- Over/Under:
Tomas Berdych and Jiri Vesely square off early in the fourth round of the 2016 Wimbledon.
Tomas Berdych is coming off a four set win over Alexander Zverev that took over two and a half hours. In the victory, Berdych won 48 of 63 of his first serve points and racked up 44 winners and 34 unforced errors. Berdych has cruised through this tournament up to this point and has won no less than 76 percent of his first serve points. When Berdych is dominating his service game the way he is and hitting his spots, he can beat anybody in the world. Berdych has 77 winners and 26 aces in his last two matches. Berdych hopes to make the quarterfinals of a grand slam for a third straight time. Berdych has won six of his last eight matches on grass.
Jiri Vesely is coming off a straight sets win over Joao Sousa that took an hour and a half. In the victory, Vesely won 38 of 46 first serve points and racked up 32 winners and 18 unforced errors. Vesely is a guy who is gaining a ton of confidence and has produced 69 winners and 26 aces in his last two matches. Vesely is covering a lot of ground out there and has a shot to make this his breakthrough grand slam appearance at 22 years old. Vesely has two career wins over top-10 players, both coming this season. This will be Vesely's first career grand slam fourth round appearance. Vesely has won five of his last seven matches on grass.
These two have played once, which was in the 2015 Shenzhen Open, a match Berdych won in straight sets. The match took 17 games to decide.
Don't put anything past Vesely, as he's beaten two top-10 players this year already and is quietly moving up the rankings. However, Berdych is very consistent and his shotmaking and experience is probably the deciding factor here.
I like Berdych in four sets.


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In weird Big Ten news, and there's a fair amount this week, Jim Harbaugh hates chicken.
Buried deep in a Bleacher Report article that's actually a nice read about Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson, the former Michigan (and current UCLA) quarterback Wilton Speight shared a story defining "The Harbaugh Experience". And it's more than just hating chicken: it's almost tinfoil-hat wearing territory.
According to Speight, who was giving his definition of "The Harbaugh Experience", Harbaugh told him not to eat chicken, a meat that's considered fairly safe to eat by nutritionists. When he asked Harbaugh why, the coach responded "because it's a nervous bird."
Speight continued: "He thinks some type of sickness injected its way into the human population when people began eating white meats instead of beef and pork," Speight says. "And he believes it, 100 percent."
Mmmmmmhmmm. Ok. I mean, pork is technically a white meat, but.
In other Jim Harbaugh news, there's a beef...
... (and I don't mean cow meat) from last year that may have been resolved between Harbaugh and Purdue over the unairconditioned visiting team locker room at Purdue.
To jog your memory, the Michigan Wolverines had to deal with uncomfortable locker room conditions during their win over the Purdue Boilermakers in September 2017, when temperatures were boiling hot in the 90s, resulting in some strong comments by Coach Harbaugh. The coach called the locker room not "sanitary" and stated that many schools are making a "conscious effort of gamesmanship that is unsportsmanlike when you have locker rooms that … are not heated or cooled properly."
Purdue responded at the time that the Wolverines knew about the unairconditioned locker rooms months in advance and stated that they'd offered some suggestions about how the team could request temporary accommodations.
As a result, Harbaugh should be happy to know that Purdue is now installing air conditioning in the standalone visiting locker room at Ross-Ade Stadium to help cool him off the next time he visits.
Finally, the Daily Collegian wrote up an article ranking the Big Ten running backs in which Miles Sanders is only ranked third (behind Wisconsin's Jonathan Taylor and Ohio State's J.K. Dobbins).
Ugh.
Moving on to more positive reads…
Penn State's representatives for Big Ten Media days won the week, in my view.
The trio of Penn State players who represented the Nittany Lions for Big Ten Media Days: quarterback Trace McSorley, safety Nick Scott and cornerback Amani Oruwariye - were not only among the best dressed but most well spoken. Check out a video from Penn State on the trio and coach James Franklin and see Penn Live's extensive behind-the-scenes photo gallery. And see the BigTen Network video below.
Finally, Penn State's offensive line is looking more like it will be a bright spot for 2018.
No surprise here. Could 2018 finally be the year that the line turns the corner? Centre Daily Times shares their story and quotes from Coach Franklin why this is the year for the offensive line: their returners are stronger, experienced and healthy plus their backups are solid, talented and deep.
Can't get any better than that.


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Hackers Cash in on COVID-19
After reviewing online attack trends for the first half of the year, numerous cybersecurity firms agree: COVID-19 was king. As the pandemic has reshaped how many live and work, so too has it driven attackers to attempt to exploit work-at-home challenges and virus fears.
But that's only part of the attack landscape picture involving broader phishing, social engineering, malware, business email compromise and other attack, fraud and scam trends that security firms have traced for the first six months of this year – as described in newly released reports.
Each security firm's analysis of the trends differs because each is based on attacks seen by the organization's customers as well as honeypots and investigations.
With that caveat, here's a sampling of the findings.
Phishing Attacks Rise and Fall
Phishing attacks surged after lockdowns began in February and March. "Fortunately, the sudden flood of COVID-themed email attacks began to subside in May," Finnish security firm F-Secure reports in its Attack Landscape H1 2020 study. "Like the pandemic, the problem hasn't gone away, but it seems to have improved."
Other security firms have traced a similar rise and fall in phishing attempts.
The monthly count for detected COVID-19-related email threats in the first half of 2020 (Source: Trend Micro)
As the pandemic continued, more malicious emails featured COVID-19 themes and contained "a mixture of spam, phishing attempts and malicious attachments as cybercriminals capitalized on the fear and uncertainty generated by the crisis," F-Secure says.
The firm says the most common subject line for a malicious email without an attachment was "Urgent Security Update" and, of the COVID-19-themed malicious emails with attachments, 75% of the attachments were either Lokibot or Formbook.
Tokyo-based Trend Micro notes that "93.5% of the email threats we detected contained both a malicious file attachment and a malicious link."
Many of these emails led to phishing sites, it says.
Social Engineering Surges
Before the pandemic began, social engineering attacks had been on the decline, according to a review of breach trends for the second quarter of this year published by London-based Beazley, the parent company of specialist insurance businesses – including six Lloyd's syndicates – with operations in Europe, the U.S. and Asia.
But after the COVID-19 outbreak began, social engineering attacks – including phishing and attackers perpetrating fraudulent instruction schemes – began to rise.
"The arrival of the global pandemic provided cybercriminals with the perfect cover for ramping up email attacks," Beazley says. "Coinciding with the increase in remote working during the second quarter, our global data has shown employees have been more likely to fall for social engineering scams, with organizations in the middle market most likely to be victimized."
Such scams often involve tricking someone into changing wire instructions or moving funds to an attacker-controlled account, it says.
Sometimes, however, scammers remotely hack into systems. For example, one scam recently seen by Beazley, which hit a university, involved attackers ascertaining which vendors were enrolled in the institution's automated clearing house system for regular payments. For more than six weeks, just before regular payments were set to be transferred, attackers accessed the ACH system, changed the legitimate vendor's bank account to an attacker-controlled one, waited for the funds to be received and then changed the bank account details back.
"Almost $600,000 of payments were diverted before the receiving bank identified the suspicious activity and shut it down," Beazley says.
BEC Scams Continue
Trend Micro notes that the volume of business email compromise scams has increased in recent months.
The number of Covid-19-related BEC attempts – not necessarily successes – compared with regular BEC attempts in the first half of 2020 (Source: Trend Micro)
"Scammers also used business email compromise schemes using COVID-19-related topics as a hook," it says. Regardless of whether attackers used a COVID-19 lure, "the effectiveness of these scams was likely bolstered by the fact that new remote work arrangements made it more difficult to keep track of communication between members of an organization."
Spyware and Information Stealers Proliferate
Which strains of malware have been especially hot this year? Singapore-based Group-IB says its Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-GIB, found that, for the first half of the year, 43% of malicious emails had spyware attached or included links for downloading spyware or information stealers, 17% contained downloaders for installing malware onto systems, 16% led to backdoors and 15% involved banking Trojans. Source: F-Secure
Opportunistic ransomware attacks, however, have declined from involving about half of all malicious email attacks in the second half of 2019 to less than 1% of all such attacks in the first half of this year.
Security firms offer widely varying accounts of what was the most-seen malware in the first half of the year.
Group-IB says the malware it most commonly saw was Trojan RTM (accounting for 30% of all malware), followed by LOKI PWS spyware (24%), the Formbook information stealer (12%), the remote access tool Agent Tesla (10%), the Nanocore information stealer (7%) and Hawkeye credential-stealing malware (5%).
F-Secure reports that the most popular method for spreading malware in the first half of the year was email. That was followed by malware being manually installed – both by attackers and users – in 35% of cases, up from 24% last year.
"This rise could be due, in part, to cybercriminals registering thousands of fake 'Zoom' domains to trick users into downloading malware disguised as the videoconferencing software," F-Secure says. "Another attacker tactic is to manually install ransomware as a second-stage payload after having gained an initial foothold into the company through an unsecured RDP port."
Examples of vendors selling RDP credentials on the cybercrime underground (Source: Trend Micro)
Accessing poorly secured remote desktop protocol connections remains a common way for attackers – including ransomware-wielding gangs – to remotely access victims' networks, researchers warn.
Criminal Paydays Continue
In its Threat Hunting Report for the first half of the year, Sunnyvale, California-based CrowdStrike says that, of the attacks it could attribute, 82% were tied to criminals and 18% to nation-state attackers. State-sponsored attacks have remained constant for some time, while the overall level of online crime has increased, the company says.
Source: CrowdStrike
One reason online crime is such a draw, CrowdStrike says, is the potential for gangs to achieve larger payoffs via big-game hunting, which refers to taking down big targets in an effort to gain massive ransom payoffs. Another trend, CrowdStrike says, is the growth in ransomware-as-a-service offerings, which offer unskilled attackers extremely sophisticated and effective crypto-locking malware tools.
Focus on Best Practices
While attackers' tools and tactics continue to evolve, security experts say the basic best practices that an organization should pursue to protect itself largely remain constant.
F-Secure advises: "Stay on top of updates and patches, lock down services that are outright vulnerable or could lead to further compromise, try to segregate employees' work computing environments from their personal, always remain vigilant for spam or phishing campaigns and educate employees about these campaigns."
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The number of Americans with serious heart disease in need of hospital treatment is on the decline. A new study in today's Journal of the American Medical Association shows the overall rate of coronary revascularizations — ranging from the coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgeries to in-and-out catheter-based procedures like angioplasties and stent insertions — fell from just under 1,500 per million adults a quarter in 2001 to less than 1,250 per million adults a quarter in 2008, a 15 percent decline.
There was more good news in the study: Virtually all of the decline was in the most serious cases — those requiring CABG, which fell by about a third. The rate of percutaneous coronary interventions (where they snake a catheter through the thigh into the blood vessels feeding the heart, propping them open with either drug-eluting or bare metal stents) remained virtually unchanged.
The study authors, who hailed from the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, suspect the decline in CABG was driven by "a sizable shift in cardiovascular clinical practice patterns away from surgical treatment toward percutaneous coronary interventions" using catheters (so-called PCI). In other words, in recent years people with serious heart disease are more likely to be treated with the less invasive procedure.
That sound like a good thing, and less expensive, too. But the authors raise a few caveats. The results from a recent trial that compared CABG to PCI showed CABG had better outcomes in the most serious cases — people with three-vessel or left main coronary artery disease. They then cite another study showing that 40 percent of people with three-vessel disease were receiving CABG in 2005 compared to 50 percent in 2002, suggesting at least some of the shift from CABG to PCI was not evidence-based.
In addition, the decline in CABG surgeries was accompanied by an increase in the number of U.S. hospitals offering the surgery. In other words, more patients are getting the more serious operation at hospitals that have relatively low volumes. Some research has shown that hospitals with greater experience have superior outcomes, although the point is contested, usually by physicians and administrators at the hospitals with the low volumes.
The study doesn't try to explain why the overall rate of hospital interventions for heart disease is declining, but it seems to me the answer is rather obvious. Though there is a rising tide of obesity and diabetes in America (both lead to serious heart disease), those factors have been outweighed by the decline in smoking, closer attention to diet, and the better control of blood pressure and cholesterol levels provided by pharmaceutical interventions.
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Facing the uncertainties of a world after college, graduates at Winter Commencement were advised to remember they may not have learned all the answers, "but the incredible education you have received at Michigan has certainly equipped you to understand the questions."
Commencement speaker Dr. Raynard S. Kington, president of Grinnell College and himself a recipient of bachelor's and medical degrees from U-M, told members of the class of 2012 — gathered with friends, family and faculty at Crisler Center on Sunday — that they must be "curious and adaptable and persistent" in their quest for answers.
• Speaker challenges UM-Dearborn graduates to pursue their passions and strive for success.
• More photos of Winter Commencement at the Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses.
"This great university has taught you many things, as it did me. But it has not given you all the answers to life's persistent questions, as Garrison Keillor is fond of calling them. It could not. Not knowing is part of the human experience," he said.
Kington illustrated his commencement lesson with a story of one time when he felt ill equipped to console his 6-year-old son. The boy was upset and unable to sleep as he worried about some rather large fears: the concept of infinite numbers, the idea that space did not end, and the reality that everyone eventually dies.
Kington tried several conceptual, historic and psychological strategies to calm his son, only to realize the futility of each new attempt.
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Kington said the lessons U-M graduates should take from that experience include "get comfortable with infinity" and "there are no final answers."
"And then there will be times when the only thing you can do in your bafflement is surrender to the beautiful unknowability of everything and sing a soothing song, if only to yourself – and that's OK, as well," he said.
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• Joschka Fischer, Doctor of Laws. Fischer was minister for foreign affairs and deputy chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1998-2005, and is recognized as one of Germany's most powerful and respected political leaders.
• Cornelia G. Kennedy, Doctor of Laws. Kennedy is senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the first woman appointed to the federal bench in Michigan. Kennedy's son, Charles, received the degree on her behalf.
In her remarks, President Mary Sue Coleman invoked the memory of Raoul Wallenberg, a 1935 U-M graduate whose heroic efforts during World War II rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps. This year marks the centennial of his birth.
She recalled Wallenberg once said he felt "so at home in my little Ann Arbor that I am beginning to sink down roots here, and I have a hard time imagining my leaving it." But he also understood he could not linger because, "I am not doing anything very useful here."
"There comes a moment – in your case, today – when it is time to move on to the next challenge," Coleman told those seated before her, adding that the coming years will bring a world "where, more than ever, individuals will make a difference with their creativity and their actions.
"These individuals will be you. The world will look to you, as graduates of one of the great universities, for solutions to climate change, new models of public education, innovative cures and therapies, and the leadership that is the hallmark of Michigan alumni."
Provost Phil Hanlon began the ceremony by asking for a moment of silence for the victims of Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Conn. — children and teachers "who came together only to learn and to teach."
He went on to speak of "breadth, diversity, service, leadership — words that describe the rich and complex Michigan experience."
"Michigan is a place of service, committed to making a positive difference in the world. I hope that every one of you has experienced this in a powerful way during your time at Michigan," Hanlon said.
"As you leave us today, we wish each of you good luck in the years ahead. We will watch your accomplishments with awe and pride and we will know that a part of Michigan is in each one."
Katharine Stockrahm of Dearborn, who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, delivered the student address, recalling her first days at U-M and a bicycle accident that occurred when she tried to avoid a squirrel. Bystanders, a professor and new classmates came to her aid. "It was as if this whole campus came together to right that demon squirrel's wrong," she said.
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The Fiqh of Loving the Sahabah
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Cii Radio | 01 Ramadan 1436/18 June 2015
Allah Taa'lah says in the Quraan Kareem:
Of the believers are men who are true to the pledge which they made with Allah: so from them is he who fulfilled his vow , and from them is he who awaits (his chance), and they have not changed in the least. (Surah Ahzab -23)
This ayah refers to those whom Allah chose to be the Companions of RasulAllah SAW. Those who stood by him SAW, who assisted the Deen of Allah in the harshest conditions, who left their homes to be with him SAW. And why would they not be the best of all people(excluding the Ambiyaa AS) when they sat in the company of the most superior of all mankind.
Hadrat Abdullah IbnMas'ud RA reported Allah's Messenger (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) as saying, "The best of men are my generation, then those who come next to them, then those who come next to them. Afterwards people will come who will give testimony before swearing an oath, and swear an oath before giving testimony." (Bukhari and Muslim)
Hadrat Abu Sa'id al Khudri RA reported Allah's Messenger SAW as saying: Do not revile my Companions; by Him in Whose hand my soul is, if one of you contributed the amount of gold equivalent to Uhud, it would not amount to as much as the handful of one of them, or half of it. (Abu Dawud)
Imam Malik AR said that the pious of the past use to teach their children the love of Abu Bakr(RA) and Umar (RA) as they would teach them a surah of the Quran.
IbnQudamah said "It is from the Sunnah to be pleased with the wives of the Messenger , the mothers of the believers, the pure and innocent. The best of them Khadijah bint Khuwailid and Ayesha al-Sideeqah daughter of al-Sideeq who Allah made innocent in His book, the wife of the Nabi SAW in this world and the next. Whoever slanders her with regards to what Allah stated she's innocent of is a disbeliever in Allah.
Ali RA named some of his sons Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman.
Hasan RA had a son named Abu Bakr and one Umar.
The wives of Nabi SAW numbered 11 altogether, each nikah ordained and instructed by Allah with numerous benefits for the Ummah.
The beloved SAW was blessed with 4 daughters at a time when daughters were considered as burden and would turn the father's face dark with disappointment.
When Fathima RA used to enter the room where her father was, he SAW, would stand up, hug her and kiss her. When he returned from any journey, he would first go to see his beloved daughter.
Abu Darda RA said:
"I have not seen anyone who prayed like Prophet peace be upon him after Prophet peace be upon him other than Muawiyah" (RA)
The best of the Ummah are the 4 Khulafaa Rashideen.
IbnAbaas RAsaid that: "His Chosen servants" refer to the companions of MuhammedSAW.
Imam Shafee AR said:Do not smear the companions for verily your adversary will be the Messenger SAW tomorrow.
"Whoever swears the companions of the Prophet r he is a disbeliever even if he fasts and prays and thinks he is a Muslim" Bishr ibn al Harith RA
Allah SubhanahuwaTa'aala declares blanket forgiveness for them:
And the first to lead the way, of the Muhajirin and the Ansar, and those who followed them in goodness – Allah is well pleased with them and they are well pleased with Him, and He has made ready for them Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they will live for ever. That is the supreme triumph. Surah Taubah Ayah 100.
By virtue of this Ayah alone, we are not allowed to say a single bad word against any of them. The most beautiful aspect of this ayah is where Allah describes them as those who are happy with Him as well, their hearts were always pleased with Allah's decision over their own.
The 'lowest ranking' Sahabi is far, far superior to any Wali that came after the Sahabah. After loving the Ambiyaa AS, we love the Sahaba and then the Auliyaa. It should be in order.
Narrated Hadrat 'Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (may Allah be pleased with him): On the day of Badr, Hadrat Al-MiqdadRA said, "O Allah's Messenger! We do not say to you as the children of Israel said to Nabi Musa AS 'Go you and your Lord and fight you two; we are sitting here, (5:24) but (we say). 'Proceed, and we are with you.' "That seemed to delight Allah's Messenger (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) greatly. (Bukhari)
We are not from amongst them but perhaps in seeking their love, we shall reach them inshaAllah.
Oh Allah we seek to be near You and Your Nabi in following whom he left behind as guardians of the wahi, those who remained in the shade of the beloved and become beloved themselves. The Sahaba RA,
… warriors by day and monks.
Nabi SAW said: A man shall be with whom he loves.
The object of this series is to create the love of Nabi SAW and to introduce the Sahabah RA to us as humans just like us so we may emulate them. Ameen.


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The official Panglao International Dive Fiesta kicks off!!!
The expo is going on between the 12th of June 2014 until the 15th of June 2014.
Today marks the first annual Panglao International Dive Fiesta sponsored by ICM mall in Tagbilaran City Bohol.
Calling all scuba divers to bohol!
Bohol Resorts and hotels also joined the venue as we took a look at the very first official Panglao International Dive Fiesta.
This marks a historic day here in Panglao Island Bohol. Most of the major Bohol scuba diving players are here like Fun divers from Lost Horizon Beach Dive Resort, Sun Divers out of Sun Apartelle as well as many others. We will be covering this 3 day event and photographing the entire event.
Stay tuned as more unfolds and if your in Alona Beach please come join in on the expo!
Pangalo Island, Bohol, Philippines is the place to be when i comes to cheap accommodations and some of the best scuba diving and scuba diving resorts that you could possibly dream of.The expo is going on between the 12th of June 2014 until the 15th of June 2014 so dont miss it.
Some major players in scuba dive shops will be strutting their stuff here at the expo for 3 days only!!!
Enjoy some photos taken at the official Panglao International Dive Fiesta in 2014!


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I beggan the SAM7X port with WinARM/OpenOCD/Wiggler debug tools.  In order to set more breakpoints and save time of burning flash, I first downloaded program to internal SRAM and debug it.  To avoid being puzzled from the strange REMAP design, SRAM was allocated in the fixed address 0x200000 in that time.  By default, SAM7X runs from the boot ROM, while watchdog is enabled.  I have no idea to disable it when debugging, so the clear WDT operation must be done.
For code size and interrupt response reasone, debugging in SRAM and booting from internal ROM is not allowed now.  It is the time to over the history of this code.
>Anyone able to explain this part of arch/arm/os/nutinit.c to me?
>          * WDT, we have no idea to disable but clear it.
>          * The watchdog is enabled after processor reset. Disable it.
>above can be removed, right?
>must be configurable, because WDT_MR can be written once only.


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